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The Philosophy and Features of Ubuntu 8.10

Ubuntu-News.net  Mon, 10/27/2008 - 13:08

Last week, I had the pleasure of getting some unique insight into the Ubuntu 8.10 release ("Intrepid Ibex") from Canonical's marketing manager, Gerry Carr.

The finalized server and desktop editions of the 8.10 release will be available for download October 30th, and host a variety of new tools and features.


 

Widening Canonical's Commercial Software Pipeline

Topix - Linux  Mon, 09/22/2008 - 14:13

My comments about Unison in last week's blog from the Web 2.0 Expo -- specifically, that its product was to be distributed through Ubuntu's own repositories -- prompted Gerry Carr, marketing manager for ...


 

Ubuntu makes playing Proprietary Formats easier and legal

Ubuntu-News.net  Sat, 09/20/2008 - 13:31

In a Canonical blog, Gerry Carr , Canonical’s marketing manager, explained how Canonical is making this possible.

Carr wrote, “For the first time we are making codecs for media playback and a DVD player, from our partners at Fluendo and Cyberlink, available through the Ubuntu store.”


 

Does open source need consolidation?

Topix - Linux  Tue, 08/26/2008 - 12:53

I was reading this OStatic interview with Ken Drachnik , marketing manager for open source software infrastructure products at Sun and a co-founder of GlassFish , and it made me wonder if it's time for some ...


 

Intel to Deliver Quad-Core Mobile Processors Next Month

MacRumors  Wed, 07/16/2008 - 11:40

Intel announced that it would be releasing its first quad-core processor for laptops next month.

"We're bringing quad-core to mobile in August," said Sujan Kamran, regional marketing manager for client platforms at Intel in Singapore....


 

Microsoft's plan to colonise open source

Digg Linux/Unix upcoming  Wed, 05/28/2008 - 09:54

A Microsoft job ad for Senior Marketing Manager – Open Source Community, spells out the company's plans.

It is in effect a concerted attack on GNU/Linux. Once use of the main open source program has been reduced, Microsoft can then easily dispose of the now-dependent open source app vendors, assuming they are foolish enough to fall for this trick.


 

Meet Karl Paetzel, HP marketing manager for GNU/Linux (Ogg)

Digg Linux/Unix upcoming  Sat, 05/10/2008 - 02:35

Karl Paetzel is quoted frequently about Hewlett-Packard's ever-increasing Linux and open source efforts, which now include open source licensing detection and governance tools.

Here's a chance to see and hear him a little more "up close and personal" than in a traditional text interview.